Susanna Haswell, Rowson, the author of "Charlotte Temple," was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1761. Her father was William Haswell, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and her mother Susanna Musgrave. In 1769 she came to America with her father, who settled at Nantasket, in Massachusetts, and remained here until 1777, She wrote, nearly twenty years afterward, in an introduction to one of her books:1" It was my fate, at a period when memory can scarcely retain the smallest trace of the occurrence, to accompany my father to Boston, in New England, where he had married aTable of Contents Why This Edition vii; Historical and Biographical Introduction xvii; I Mrs Rovvson xix; II The Book xxix; III Charlotte xxxviii; IV The Tombstone xlix; V Montraville lxx; VI The Last Days of Montresor and Mon-; traville lxxxiii; VII A Contribution to a Bibliography xci; CHARLOTTE TEMPLE VOLUME !; Chapter page; The Author"s Preface 3; I A Boarding-School 7; II Domestic Concerns 13; III Unexpected Misfortunes...